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Hosea 2
Jewish Publication Society 1917 · Berean Standard Bible
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, instead of that which was said unto them: ‘Ye are not My people’, it shall be said unto them: ‘Ye are the children of the living God.’
“Say of your brothers, ‘My people (note: Hebrew Ammi),’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one (note: Or Mercy is shown; Hebrew Ruhamah, which means she has received mercy).’
And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall go up out of the land; for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
Say ye unto your brethren: ‘Ammi (note: That is, My people.)’; and to your sisters, ‘Ruhamah (note: That is, That hath obtained compassion.).’
Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.
Plead with your mother, plead; For she is not My wife, neither am I her husband; And let her put away her harlotries from her face, And her adulteries from between her breasts;
I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.
Lest I strip her naked, And set her as in the day that she was born, And make her as a wilderness, And set her like a dry land, And slay her with thirst.
For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’
And I will not have compassion upon her children; For they are children of harlotry.
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path (note: Hebrew your path) with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
For their mother hath played the harlot, She that conceived them hath done shamefully; For she said: ‘I will go after my lovers, That give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.’
She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, And I will make a wall against her, That she shall not find her paths.
For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold—which they crafted for Baal.
And she shall run after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them, And she shall seek them, but shall not find them; Then shall she say: ‘I will go and return to my first husband; For then was it better with me than now.’
Therefore I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season; I will take away My wool and linen, which were given to cover her nakedness.
For she did not know that it was I that gave her The corn, and the wine, and the oil, And multiplied unto her silver and gold, Which they used for Baal.
And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.
Therefore will I take back My corn in the time thereof, And My wine in the season thereof, And will snatch away My wool and My flax Given to cover her nakedness.
I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts.
And now will I uncover her shame in the sight of her lovers, And none shall deliver her out of My hand.
I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.
I will also cause all her mirth to cease, Her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, And all her appointed seasons.
I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she adorned herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.
And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, Whereof she hath said: ‘These are my hire That my lovers have given me’; And I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field shall eat them.
“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.
And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, Wherein she offered unto them, And decked herself with her ear-rings and her jewels, And went after her lovers, And forgot Me, saith the LORD.
There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor (note: Achor means trouble.) into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, And bring her into the wilderness, And speak tenderly unto her.
In that day,” declares the LORD, “you will call Me ‘my Husband (note: Hebrew my Ishi),’ and no longer call Me ‘my Master (note: Hebrew my Baal).’
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, And the valley of Achor (note: That is, Troubling.) for a door of hope; And she shall respond there, as in the days of her youth, And as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
For I will remove from her lips the names of the Baals; no longer will their names be invoked.
And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, That thou shalt call Me Ishi (note: That is, My husband.), And shalt call Me no more Baali (note: That is, My master.).
On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and battle in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.
For I will take away the names of the Baalim out of her mouth, And they shall no more be mentioned by their name.
So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion (note: Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant.) and compassion.
And in that day will I make a covenant for them With the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, And with the creeping things of the ground; And I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, And will make them to lie down safely.
And I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will know the LORD.”
And I will betroth thee unto Me for ever; Yea, I will betroth thee unto Me in righteousness, and in justice, And in lovingkindness, and in compassion.
“On that day I will respond—” declares the LORD—“I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth.
And I will betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness; And thou shalt know the LORD.
And the earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine and oil, and they will respond to Jezreel (note: Jezreel means God sows.).
And it shall come to pass in that day, I will respond, saith the LORD, I will respond to the heavens, And they shall respond to the earth;
And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion (note: Hebrew Lo-ruhamah; LXX I will love her who was not loved).’ I will say to those called ‘Not My People (note: Hebrew Lo-ammi),’ ‘You are My people (note: Cited in Romans 9:25 and 1 Peter 2:10),’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”
And the earth shall respond to the corn, and the wine, and the oil; And they shall respond to Jezreel (note: That is, Whom God soweth.).
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And I will sow her unto Me in the land; And I will have compassion upon her that had not obtained compassion; And I will say to them that were not My people: ‘Thou art My people’; And they shall say: ‘Thou art my God.’
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